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LurkerJ on 06 November 2013
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Aielyn said:
LurkerJ said:
Time to tone down the optimism. Needless to say, asking third party companies to keep it on the hush about uannounced games scheduled for 2014 is just flat out stupid, but still not totally out of Nintendo's recent character.

Optimism? I said nothing about the quality of the games. I spoke of existence of unannounced titles, and I'm pretty confident about that, without particular optimism.

And it's not 'flat out stupid' in any regard. There are arguments for and against Nintendo's strategy, but this is what is most notable: Nintendo have announced their biggest hitters. Smash and Kart, along with Zelda in the longer term. Add Bayonetta, X, Yarn Yoshi, and SMTxFE, and you've got a solid first-party lineup to drive sales in the meantime.

People primarily buy Nintendo consoles for the first-party lineup. So this is what they make sure people know. For third-party titles, they want to keep the focus on the here-and-now to encourage people to buy the games that are out now, or to preorder the ones that are out soon. Whether it's a strong strategy or not, it's certainly not a stupid one.

It can be a not strong strategy but it can't be stupid? I am done.